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Myotonic Dystrophy Muscle Disease

Muscular dystrophy is the medical term that is used for a group of genetic (hereditary) muscle diseases. These diseases are evidenced by progressive muscle weakness in the muscles that enable your body to move.

Muscular dystrophy has to do with missing or incorrect information in your genes. With muscular dystrophy, the proteins that are needed so that you might have healthy muscles are prevented from being produced.

Muscular dystrophy is a disease that is hereditary. This means that you get it from your parents. Muscular dystrophy is not a disease that you can catch from someone who has it. It is not contagious.

As time goes by, muscular dystrophy leads to your muscles getting weaker. As a result, you may gradually lose the ability to do things that most people take for granted, such as walking or sitting up. The problems caused by muscular dystrophy may begin at any point in life, from the time you were a baby, childhood, adolescence or when you became an adult.

There are several different types of muscular dystrophy that affect different muscle groups in different ways. Myotonic dystrophy is one of the kinds of muscular dystrophy.

Myotonic dystrophy is the most common type of muscular dystrophy that originates in adulthood. Myotonic dystrophy usually takes place between the ages of 20 and 40. However, there is also an infantile type of myotonic dystrophy. In fact, this disease may start at any age from birth to old age.

It was not until the 1980s that much was known concerning what brings about any form of muscular dystrophy. Then, researchers found out that muscular dystrophy is the result of a defective gene.

Due to this defective gene, there is not a sufficient amount of a protein that is known as dystrophin that is produced. Dystrophin is a protein that works to keep your muscle cells intact.

Myotonic Dystrophy and Receiving Disability

In myotonic dystrophy, a repeated section of DNA occurs on either chromosome 3 or chromosome 19. If you are afflicted with myotonic dystrophy, you may be entitled to receive social security disability benefits, such as SSI or SSDI. You will never go wrong by going to one of the social security attorneys at disabilitycasereview.com. The social security lawyers at disabilitycasereview.com can help you get the disability benefits that you qualify for. Visit our attorney page to find an attorney near you.

The progression of myotonic dystrophy is very slow. The disease may span a period of 50 to 60 years.

The first signs and symptoms of myotonic dystrophy are usually muscle wasting (loss of muscle tissue) and generalized weakness in your face, neck, forearms, hands and lower legs. This usually takes place in conjunction with having problems relaxing your muscles after you contract them. Other signs and symptoms that you may have include:

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Cataracts (clouding of the lenses of your eyes)

Difficulty sleeping well at night

Problems with swallowing and breathing

Daytime sleepiness

Fainting or dizziness

An inability to concentrate

Mild diabetes

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